Example sentences of "since [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not named the place where he is to be found , since I do not know it , and a week hence it may be very far from where he bides today . |
| 2 | Anyway , since I do not seem to be the owner of a super-fit body I thought it best this year to enter an event that required the minimum of movement . |
| 3 | Not a term I would use myself , since I do not find it particularly felicitous . |
| 4 | I am sorry that he has gone , since I do not like criticising him in his absence . |
| 5 | I told him , however , that he would have to provide the list of guests since I did not feel that I could exploit my own list any further . |
| 6 | According to his memoirs de Gaulle willingly envisaged that hostilities would commence in Indochina : ‘ French blood shed on Indo-Chinese soil would give us an important voice … since I did not harbour the least doubt as to Japan 's ultimate aggression , I desired that our troops should fight , no matter how desperate their situation . ’ |
| 7 | It would be absurd if my wife were to accuse me of using the word ‘ here ’ without meaning , since I did not know where I was . |
| 8 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |
| 9 | Certainly it appears so , since you did not see the subordinate reading his newspaper again . |
| 10 | " Since you do not want the maiden , I am taking her for myself , gracious princess ! " he called . |
| 11 | And so , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ since you do not love me , properly , not truly , not the way I love you , it would not be right for us to make love . ’ |
| 12 | With the greater part of her days work done and since she did not have to cook Alisdairs lunch , ( he would likely stop in a pub near the market ) , she went back into the cottage to enjoy the only pleasure she got from life on the croft , her weaving . |
| 13 | Platelet mRNA was used as a negative control , since we did not find any expression of this gene by RT-PCR or CE . |
| 14 | It is therefore possible to argue that an analogy with child protection is misleading , since we do not assume that children should look after themselves . |
| 15 | With direction targets it does not matter since we do not expect to get there . |
| 16 | Since we do not expect the front-end to recognize only the correct phonemes we also look at less informative representations . |
| 17 | Here again , however , difficult practical problems may be encountered , since we do not know exactly how many dies a coin die could make . |
| 18 | While we can say that the average figure is likely to fall between 1 and 3 metres , since we do not know how many are 1.6 metres , 1.7 metres or 2 metres tall , we can not calculate the average . |
| 19 | ( Of course since we do not know what happens in the jury room — and it is illegal to find out — the likelihood is that the jury will disregard the law and convict the accused of one offence or the other , hardly the best possible outcome . ) |
| 20 | It is my view , of course , that we have no such idea , and no need of it , since we do not take condition-sets for effects to be merely " enough " for them in the given sense . |
| 21 | Since we do not have a year-long content analysis of the media we can not investigate the influence of a changing media consensus but we can analyse the differential effects of different elements of the media . |
| 22 | Judging their welfare now becomes in many ways a much easier matter since we do not have the intervention of mysterious interests which , on Regan 's model , they must be supposed to have yet will be unable to give voice to since they do not speak . |
| 23 | We refer the interested reader to Schwartz ( 1985 ) for more illustrations of ways of applying Garrett 's model to aphasic sentence production , since we do not have space here to consider this work further : we must now turn from considering disorders of spoken language to a discussion of disorders of written language reading disorders ( acquired dyslexias ) and writing disorders ( acquired dysgraphias ) . |
| 24 | These conclusions were consigned to the inside pages , since they did not fit the script that had been written on Scotland 's behalf . |
| 25 | As Table 14 shows , the overall distribution of material in need of repair was such that more than three-quarters ( 78% ) of all defective items issued were classified only as ‘ Poor ’ since they did not show major deterioration , while just under a fifth ( 18% ) were classified as ‘ Bad ’ . |
| 26 | ( The contracts for the furniture were not the subject of s. 2 , since they did not concern " land " . |
| 27 | Trusts were ideally suited for such treatment since they did not presuppose that certain words had been used by the testator , but merely that a certain intention had been manifested . |
| 28 | In a further six cases ( one in Newham , five in Ipswich ) the development officer said she would have liked to provide a little extra help but a support worker was rejected by the client or his informal carer ; and since they did not require the kind of direct help which the development officer could provide , she merely visited occasionally to check whether or not the situation was breaking down . |
| 29 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 30 | The Soviet view was that those Koreans who had condemned the Moscow agreement should not be consulted , since they did not accept the premises on which decisions were being reached . |